Hosier - Open-Air Dairying

Ribble

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I'm grateful for the metric system. Looking at these numbers, I can hardly make any sense of it.

""
720 gallons each.
-- Produce per cow £40-2-0
-- Cost of production per cow £23-15-0

My average labour cost per gallon of milk last year was 1-7/16 d. One man, £2, and one boy £1 5s., £3 5s. per week. ""
 
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Repeat

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Cumbria
Could I recommend , for anyone who is interested, reading Farmers Glory by AG Street . Got through it this spring and it describes farming before the first world war , one man to 10 cows handmilking ,his emigration to Canada which is fascinating, breaking the prairies with a lot of horses and plow. The boom and bust after the war. And the third section where he becomes a disciple of Hosier.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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